Gruesome scene as boyfriend stabs mom dead, beats her with bat as blood splashed on small children

4years ago

Ballantine news, Montana news.

A Montana man is behind bars after the small children of his ex-girlfriend told police he stabbed her to death and beat her with a baseball bat.

Stephen Craig Phillips, 37, killed 34-year-old Jennifer McCollum with a kitchen knife as her three children; 9-month-old, 4 and 9-year-old; watched inside their trailer home before beating her with a baseball bat. The victim was found in a pool of her blood on May 15. Blood was on the kids’ faces, hands and feet when they met officers: “Hello, my mom has been killed. Steven killed my mom.”

“I am still shocked and disgusted that someone ended such a beautiful woman’s life over something so senseless,” a neighbor said. “And she was literally less than 10 feet from my home as that monster savagely took her life in front of her babies.”